Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
changed publishing technology
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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We just feel that it's wrong. All it's doing is increasing the number of people that want to do our country harm by making more enemies than allies. I'm just convinced that this administration is less concerned with diplomacy and more concerned about showing the world its strength.
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Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don't think a commercial publisher was willing to take it on. But for us, it was interesting because it combined photographs with the essay.
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It is not possible to link anybody in this hemisphere to any ethnic group in Africa at this time.
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I think that's all been settled, I don't know what their point is now, anyway.
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France hasn't been a member of NATO's military command for the last 37 years, so their agreement on military planning isn't even required.
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We thought we needed a publication base for works in progress that deserved some light at this point, or for works that didn't fit other publication categories.
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They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
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Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
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War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.